They took down the Stop Work Order. I'll bet demolition will continue on Wednesday, January 2. See "Permit? I Thought YOU Got the Permit" from December 29, 2102. The order said: "NO PERMIT + PLANSNO PRE CONSTRUCTION MEETING" 12-28-12, Friday There i… Read more »
This "stop work" sign went up after noon yesterday. At lunchtime workers were loading debris into roll-offs. At dinnertime I found this. "NO PERMIT + PLANSNO PRE CONSTRUCTION MEETING"12-28-12, FridayI looked online and couldn't find the permit. Did y… Read more »
Kirkwood has a fine collection of 100 year old houses. Atlanta's crisp, low winter light is doing it's magic on them.Kirkwood cruising is a great way for architecture tourists to enjoy winter.There are a few clusters of beauties but they are scattere… Read more »
Demolition of 109 Seventh Street Atlanta, the J. A. McCord Apartment 1923 designed by Neel Reid of Hentz, Reid & Adler. It faces Seventh Street but it's just 50 yards from Peachtree.Picture taken 2012-12-18."Rumor that this was a Reid design proved c… Read more »
On a circle of impressive estate houses it's the only one I can remember. It's the only one that makes me smile.It's so different from the neighbors, so close the street, and so classical that it's a public landmark as well as a house.It's on a bluff… Read more »
I spiffed up the house before the ladies arrived for book club then bolted for ACAC, then Phoenix Metal Works, then Maigh's birthday tweet-up.First, ACAC: the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and Young Blood Gallery had a little Christmas Shop with eg… Read more »
Last September I noticed sample colors on the Gilded Angel. Candler Park has two little "embedded" business centers, Clifton at McLendon is downtown. Oakdale at MeLendon is uptown and home to the Gilded Angel, now dressed in green.It's a fine little … Read more »
In 2001 the Decatur (Georgia) Preservation Alliance moved this "two-room circa 1870s servant's quarters tenement structure." I think this means two mirror image rooms / apartments on either side of a central chimney.It's at the corner of Church and B… Read more »